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#GiveBIG2024

May 7 - 8

GiveBIG is our…

Our SPRING ONLINE AUCTION is almost here!

Bidding starts MONDAY, April 22 at 8 AM (Pacific Time)

(Bidding ends Sunday, April 28 at 8 PM (Pacific Time)

USE THE LINK BELOW TO GET A PREVIEW OF THE COOL ITEMS WE WILL BE OFFERING THIS TIME - items like:…

Mahogany & Merlot 2023 was an amazing weekend and a wonderful opportunity to make some dreams come true!  We want to thank every one of you who attended, participated and volunteered for this event - You are Wonderful!…

PURCHASE YOUR TICKETS TO THE HYDROPLANE & RACEBOAT MUSEUM'S 2023 GARDEN GALA & AUCTION

BY USING THE FOLLOWING LINK:…

ONLINE MEMORABILIA AUCTION IS OPEN NOW!

THERE ARE TONS OF COLLECTIBLE, ONE OF A KIND OR JUST DOWNRIGHT AMAZING ITEMS AVAILABLE IN OUR CURRENT ONLINE MEMORABILIA AUCTION - HERE'S A PEEK AT A COUPLE OF ITEMS UP FOR BID:…

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Thank you for the add, I live in West Australia, so do not have a lot of knowledge of these boats, my main reason for joining is to find more information about “Miss Thriftway Too”                                                            I’m about to build a Roger Newton plans (DOUBLE SIZED), as I have already done this to “Miss Smirnoff” some years ago that…

http://www.pictongazette.ca/2021/05/17/thompson-of-miss-supertest-fame-passes-away-at-94/

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      My main reason for contacting your organization is to comment that I am the guy who physically built the two Pride of Pay ‘n Pac’s back in the early 70’s while working for Ron Jones when he had his manufacturing facility on 17th st in Costa Mesa CA.  I worked for Ron for about 4yrs as a carpenter and during that time I also built Notre Dame, several 7litres, racing tunnel hulls, a  pleasure tunnel hull he was trying to develop as a commercial project with Phil Anthony of…

I just got done reading Doug Ford's book 

What were they thinking", and thoroughly enjoyed it.  

Being from Detroit and having started following the Unlimiteds in 1969, I had some familiarity with many of the boats but this added a lot of information I didn't know.  I appreciated how Doug did somewhat of a root cause analysis of each of the boats at the end of each chapter.

I also learned about some boats that were before my time.

I have been in Dave Bartush's…

Putting the “Unlimited” into Hydroplanes

by 

Kirsten N. Johnson 

Gar Wood's great niece…

AS WE TAKE TIME THIS THANKSGIVING TO REMEMBER WHAT WE ARE THANKFUL FOR, ALL OF US AT THE HYDROPLANE & RACEBOAT MUSEUM WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT WE ARE THANKFUL FOR OUR WONDERFUL DONORS, MEMBERS AND VOLUNTEERS.…

HYDROPLANE & RACEBOAT MUSEUM

HOLIDAY HOURS AND CLOSURES…

We will be running four boats at Tri Cities this weekend  July 26, 27 and 28. The Museum will be closed until 

we return on Tuesday July 30th. We apologize for any…

THE HYDROPLANE & RACEBOAT MUSEUM

WILL BE CLOSED THURSDAY, JULY 4TH

IN…

In the ‘50s, males 18 and older had three choices: Be drafted for two years, enlist three to four years or try to find work. In spite of the impending draft I landed a job that offered excitement like meeting well-known personalities and becoming part of hydroplane racing at Stan Sayres Inc. Stan Sayres Inc. was a Chrysler/Dodge/Plymouth/Desoto…

 By, Timothy Ramsey / HaRM

This past weekend, August 24^th – 26^th, many witnessed a lot of activity within the vintage unlimited scene as there were events stretching from Kent Washington all the way to Detroit Michigan that involved unlimited class race boats of all shapes and sizes. Below are just four events that we were aware of and there…